Bite vs. Kite

Biteverb

(transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.

Biteverb

(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.

Biteverb

To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

Biteverb

To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

Biteverb

To sting.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

Biteverb

To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

Biteverb

(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.

Biteverb

(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

Biteverb

To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

Biteverb

To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

Biteverb

To plagiarize, to imitate.

Biteverb

(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

Bitenoun

The act of biting.

Bitenoun

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

Bitenoun

The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

Bitenoun

A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

Bitenoun

(slang) Something unpleasant.

Bitenoun

(slang) An act of plagiarism.

Bitenoun

A small meal or snack.

Bitenoun

(figuratively) aggression

Bitenoun

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

Bitenoun

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

Bitenoun

A sharper; one who cheats.

Bitenoun

(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

Biteverb

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

Biteverb

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

Biteverb

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

Biteverb

To cheat; to trick; to take in.

Biteverb

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

Biteverb

To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

Biteverb

To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

Biteverb

To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

Biteverb

To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

Biteverb

To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

Bitenoun

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.

Bitenoun

The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

Bitenoun

The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

Bitenoun

A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

Bitenoun

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

Bitenoun

A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

Bitenoun

A sharper; one who cheats.

Bitenoun

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

Bitenoun

a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

Bitenoun

a small amount of solid food; a mouthful;

Bitenoun

a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

Bitenoun

a light informal meal

Bitenoun

(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait;

Bitenoun

wit having a sharp and caustic quality;

Bitenoun

a strong odor or taste property;

Bitenoun

the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

Bitenoun

a portion removed from the whole;

Biteverb

to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws;

Biteverb

cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;

Biteverb

penetrate or cut, as with a knife;

Biteverb

deliver a sting to;

Biteverb

(of a person or animal) use the teeth to cut into something

Biteverb

use the teeth in order to inflict injury on

Biteverb

(of a snake, insect, or spider) wound with fangs, pincers, or a sting

Biteverb

(of an acid) corrode a surface

Biteverb

(of a fish) take the bait or lure on the end of a fishing line into the mouth

Biteverb

be persuaded to accept a deal or offer

Biteverb

annoy or worry

Biteverb

(of a tool, tyre, boot, etc.) grip or take hold on a surface

Biteverb

(of an object) press into a part of the body, causing pain

Biteverb

cause emotional pain

Biteverb

(of a policy or situation) take effect, with unpleasant consequences

Biteverb

be very bad, unpleasant, or unfortunate

Bitenoun

an act of biting something in order to eat it

Bitenoun

a wound inflicted by an animal's or a person's teeth

Bitenoun

a wound inflicted by a snake, insect, or spider

Bitenoun

an instance of bait being taken by a fish

Bitenoun

the bringing together of the teeth so that the jaws are closed.

Bitenoun

an imprint of the position of the teeth when the jaws are closed, made in a plastic material.

Bitenoun

a piece cut off by biting

Bitenoun

a quick snack

Bitenoun

a small morsel of prepared food, intended to constitute one mouthful

Bitenoun

a short piece of information.

Bitenoun

a sharp or pungent flavour

Bitenoun

incisiveness or cogency of style

Bitenoun

a feeling of cold in the air or wind

Kitenoun

A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

Kitenoun

Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).

Kitenoun

A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.

Kitenoun

Some species in the subfamily Perninae.

Kitenoun

(figuratively) A rapacious person.

Kitenoun

A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.

Kitenoun

A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.

Kitenoun

(astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.

Kitenoun

A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.

Kitenoun

An accommodation bill.

Kitenoun

A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.

Kitenoun

(geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.

Kitenoun

An aeroplane or aircraft.

Kitenoun

In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding sail or a jib topsail.

Kitenoun

A supplementary sail to a mainsail.

Kitenoun

The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.

Kitenoun

A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.

Kitenoun

The stomach; the belly.

Kitenoun

(Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to 0.1 deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).

Kiteverb

(transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.

Kiteverb

To tamper with a medical prescription, increasing the number of pills or other items.

Kiteverb

To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

Kiteverb

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a bird.

Kiteverb

To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.

Kiteverb

To steal.

Kiteverb

Usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.

Kiteverb

(intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.

Kiteverb

To move rapidly; to rush.

Kiteverb

To deflect sideways in the water.

Kiteverb

To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.

Kitenoun

Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

Kitenoun

Fig.: One who is rapacious.

Kitenoun

A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

Kitenoun

A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

Kitenoun

A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.

Kitenoun

Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.

Kitenoun

The brill.

Kitenoun

A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; - called also sentry.

Kitenoun

The belly.

Kiteverb

To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.

Kitenoun

a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

Kitenoun

a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

Kitenoun

plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

Kitenoun

any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals

Kiteverb

increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently;

Kiteverb

get credit or money by using a bad check;

Kiteverb

soar or fly like a kite;

Kiteverb

fly a kite;

Kite

A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors.